Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IPsec skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IPsec over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 763 929
Rank change year-on-year +76 +166 -182
Permanent jobs citing IPsec 210 208 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 1.30% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 133 108 258
10th Percentile £26,700 £36,250 £33,425
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £74,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £49,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.84% -0.25% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IPsec is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

IPsec
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IPsec as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IPsec.

Salary trend for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IPsec over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IPsec in the UK

IPsec
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IPsec within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +102 170 £47,500 -9.52% 27
UK excluding London +17 155 £32,500 -34.84% 15
Work from Home +147 104 £47,500 -9.52% 26
London +134 48 £50,000 -11.11% 13
Midlands +31 45 £27,400 -39.78% 6
West Midlands +53 36 £27,400 -39.78% 6
North of England +38 31 £35,000 -26.32% 1
South East +2 30 £53,000 +0.95% 4
North West +26 26 £35,000 -39.13% 1
South West +12 20 £31,250 -51.46% 2
Scotland -50 20 £32,500 -40.91% 2
Wales +19 9 £41,067 - 1
East Midlands -18 9 £45,000 -
Yorkshire +78 8 £62,500 +19.05%
Northern Ireland +29 5 - -
East of England +14 4 £62,500 +4.17%
North East -8 3 £62,500 +66.67%

IPsec
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 54 (25.71%) Apache
2 12 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.05%) Azure
2 56 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 19 (9.05%) AWS
4 18 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 18 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 9 (4.29%) IaaS
7 6 (2.86%) GCP
8 5 (2.38%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (2.38%) PaaS
9 3 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.95%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.95%) OpenDNS
11 1 (0.48%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.48%) SaaS
11 1 (0.48%) Serverless
11 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 167 (79.52%) VPN
2 148 (70.48%) Firewall
3 92 (43.81%) WAN
4 70 (33.33%) LAN
5 68 (32.38%) BGP
6 67 (31.90%) DNS
7 64 (30.48%) SNMP
8 57 (27.14%) DHCP
8 57 (27.14%) OSPF
9 56 (26.67%) Internet
10 55 (26.19%) MPLS
11 43 (20.48%) VLAN
12 42 (20.00%) Wireless
13 41 (19.52%) Wi-Fi
14 37 (17.62%) SSL
15 31 (14.76%) TCP/IP
16 21 (10.00%) IPv4
16 21 (10.00%) IPv6
16 21 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
17 19 (9.05%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.71%) Elasticsearch
1 54 (25.71%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.95%) Couchbase
3 2 (0.95%) MySQL
General
1 64 (30.48%) Finance
2 23 (10.95%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.33%) Legal
4 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.90%) Aviation
5 4 (1.90%) Avionics
5 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.43%) Law
7 2 (0.95%) Billing
7 2 (0.95%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.48%) Marketing
8 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (34.29%) Network Engineer
2 56 (26.67%) Consultant
3 54 (25.71%) NetApp Consultant
4 18 (8.57%) Senior
5 17 (8.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 15 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Network Support
7 14 (6.67%) WAN Engineer
8 13 (6.19%) 3rd Line Support
9 11 (5.24%) Architect
9 11 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (5.24%) Support Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
11 8 (3.81%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 8 (3.81%) Network Technician
12 7 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Systems Architect
13 6 (2.86%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Senior Network Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
2 54 (25.71%) YAML
3 23 (10.95%) 802.1X
4 7 (3.33%) HTML
4 7 (3.33%) XML
5 2 (0.95%) LAMP
5 2 (0.95%) V-Ray
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.48%) OpenID
6 1 (0.48%) SAML
6 1 (0.48%) Web Services
6 1 (0.48%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (46.19%) Data Centre
2 33 (15.71%) PKI
3 11 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.90%) Replication
8 3 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 75 (35.71%) Linux
1 75 (35.71%) Windows
2 54 (25.71%) Data ONTAP
3 21 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.81%) Unix
5 7 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (2.86%) Apple iOS
7 5 (2.38%) Android
8 3 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (29.52%) Project Management
3 56 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
3 56 (26.67%) Storage Management
4 55 (26.19%) Project Planning
5 54 (25.71%) Infrastructure Management
5 54 (25.71%) Release Management
6 24 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 18 (8.57%) ITIL
7 18 (8.57%) Load Balancing
8 17 (8.10%) Customer Service
8 17 (8.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (8.10%) Roadmaps
9 14 (6.67%) Information Security
10 13 (6.19%) Computer Science
10 13 (6.19%) Network Design
11 12 (5.71%) Network Management
11 12 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
11 12 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.90%) Python
2 15 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.90%) SQL
4 2 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (24.29%) Security Cleared
3 41 (19.52%) SC Cleared
4 33 (15.71%) CCNA
5 26 (12.38%) CCNP
6 14 (6.67%) Degree
7 10 (4.76%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.86%) CCIE
8 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.38%) CompTIA CySA+
9 5 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.38%) GIAC
9 5 (2.38%) JNCIE
9 5 (2.38%) MCSA
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.43%) CCDA
11 3 (1.43%) JNCIA
12 2 (0.95%) JNCIP
12 2 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.86%) SLA
3 5 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (28.10%) Docker
3 26 (12.38%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.95%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.95%) pfSense
6 2 (0.95%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 62 (29.52%) Ansible
2 59 (28.10%) Kubernetes
3 54 (25.71%) Prometheus
3 54 (25.71%) vCenter Server
4 10 (4.76%) Puppet
5 8 (3.81%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.86%) SolarWinds Orion
7 5 (2.38%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.43%) Grafana
8 3 (1.43%) Nessus
8 3 (1.43%) WSUS
9 2 (0.95%) Backup Exec
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.95%) Terraform
9 2 (0.95%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (34.76%) Palo Alto
2 67 (31.90%) VMware
3 64 (30.48%) Juniper
4 60 (28.57%) Cisco
5 54 (25.71%) NetApp
5 54 (25.71%) Red Hat
5 54 (25.71%) SolidFire
6 23 (10.95%) Fortinet
7 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
8 15 (7.14%) F5
8 15 (7.14%) SolarWinds
9 11 (5.24%) Meraki
10 9 (4.29%) Google
11 8 (3.81%) Arista
11 8 (3.81%) Tufin
12 7 (3.33%) Dell
13 6 (2.86%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.86%) HP
13 6 (2.86%) Veeam
14 3 (1.43%) Avaya